As Texas prepares to hand out DNA kits to schoolchildren to bring home to parents, other concerned caregivers are weighing in on the issue of DNA kits for kids — and what it says about society.

Because of racial disparities in arrests and convictions, this database contains a large cache of DNA profiles from Black people. For missing-persons cases, CODIS is less useful.

DNA is the building block of life — it can tell us a lot about both who we are, and who we may become. DNA is also, ...

DNA. You Do Not Need To Store Your Kids' DNA in Case of Emergencies Fearmongering about mass school shootings leads to some dumb, privacy-threatening ideas.

The DNA of 10 families exposed to the ’80s violence and 22 families to the 2011 conflict was compared to the genetic material of 16 families who left Syria before 1980, avoiding decades of unrest.

With Texas DNA kits, intent and need don't line up. The idea for the kits stems from a Texas law passed in 2021 – after a mass shooting at a school in Santa Fe, Texas, but before the Uvalde ...

Let’s identify kids after they’ve been murdered instead of fixing issues that could ultimately prevent them from being murdered,” Brett Cross, whose 10-year-old son, Uziyah Garcia, was ...

Parents have been able to request “fingerprint and DNA identification kits” from Texas schools since before Uvalde as part of a program to help find missing kids.